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Jan 17, 2020 16:17:46   #
FS Digest
 
What baits and rigs you all suggest for rainbow trout fishing?

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by BIGBOYDADUDNDJDNDBD

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Jan 17, 2020 16:17:51   #
FS Digest
 
I’ve always had good luck with rainbow and orange powerbait

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by Airsoft_19

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Jan 17, 2020 16:17:56   #
FS Digest
 
Light/ultralight rod with a small-spool spinning reel (3000 or smaller.), spooled with the lightest line you can find. I've got 4lb mono on my trout rod.

As for bait, corn with some vanilla extract, salmon eggs, marshmallows, Berkley 3" floating trout worms (I like fluorescent orange), and powerbait all work. Use a size 10-12 hook (nothing bigger than a 6). Corn you'll want to fish under a bobber. The others tend to float, so an appropriately sized split shot 18" up from the hook will put you where you want to be.

Lures? Super dupers are by far my favorite, but little spoons, inline spinners, and tiny crankbaits that don't rattle will catch them, too.

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by mypostingname13

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Jan 17, 2020 16:18:02   #
FS Digest
 
Depends on the water body type (lake vs pond vs river vs stream), and if you want to keep/harvest them. Most anglers when fishing for STOCKED rainbow trout are keeping their catch and many places even allow the use of two poles at a time.

In those circumstances, because the stockers swim around in schools and you're "bait-n-wait" -ing, you want something that reduces gut hooking them, fast to retie when you do, and can let you experiment with baits/colors until you find a winning combo. For that, I believe the best rig you can use is: #4 round split shot pinched 8 to 18 inches (experiment) above a #8 Owner mosquito light hook... you can bait it and fish slowly with your favorite color floating mice tail or trout worm, and bait-n-wait with the floating powerbait flavor of the day! (dip the powerbait in the water before casting it out to 'seal' it...)

^ Good for ponds, lakes, slow sections of larger stream/rivers...

*Bonus/secret/advanced techniques I use: bubble float with pistol pete fly #6 & #10, rapala countdown #5 & #7 replaced with gamakatsu siwash hooks (front hook removed, tail only #6 & #4 hooks), Mepps black fury spinners #2... Good luck!

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by HookedAZ

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Jan 17, 2020 16:18:09   #
FS Digest
 
Stocked or wild trout?

Stocked trout behave way way differently - they barely know how to be fish, and fantasize about food pellets..so powerbait is a great go to.

For wild trout spinners and kastmasters. Also had good luck with the small rebel crayfish lure.

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by RandomPantsAppear

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Jan 17, 2020 16:51:08   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
Small rebel crayfish lure. Dangit! You let the cat out of the bag. I guess trout must love crayfish, because they sure hit that thing. But I've never caught one on a live one. Go figure.

BIGBOYDADUDNDJDNDBD where you fishing and what kind of trout? Lake or stream? Salt or fresh? Fly fishing or conventional? Lots of questions. Best thing you can do is add your location to your profile so we don't have to ask every time you post something. Will you do that please?

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Jan 17, 2020 16:54:25   #
Jeremy Loc: America
 
Corn, chartreuse, and fluorescent Orange power baits. I add gold glitter from arts and craft store even if they already have glitter in them. I sometimes blend my powerbaits too. I have many of them. I use the tiniest gold treble hook ( hard to find ) size 16 or 18. I use a sliding pencil lead on main line above swivel so fish do not feel resistance of fixed lead. I adjust leader length according to what others hooking fish are using or if been there many times I know the length. Usually 24 to 30 inches of leader.

Troll with ford fender and 6 inches of line with powerbait. Or wedding ring behind ford fender with worm. Once you get bites you know how to rig everything up in the boat for the day.

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Jan 17, 2020 17:28:49   #
flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
 
A fly rod and a fly.

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Jan 17, 2020 17:33:49   #
Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv
 
I will vote on the small rebel crawfish and throw in a black joes fly with a bronze or copper blade tipped with a mealworm on the single hook or a small rooster tail spinner.





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Jan 17, 2020 17:49:39   #
audigger53 Loc: Severn, MD
 
In Arizona where I grew up fishing, Corn was NOT legal. Trout can't digest it and it plugs them up and kills then. As per the Fish and Game in Arizona. I admit it works good from all I have heard, but it was not legal, like using Gold Fish for Bass. Bass love them but if they get off they take over a lake, Again this was in Arizona.

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Jan 17, 2020 17:54:21   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
I think that if that's true about them not being able to digest it then it should be illegal. I don't think it is in California. Pretty sure it's legal, so I'm really suspicious about the truth of it. I'm gonna look into to it.

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Jan 17, 2020 17:55:08   #
Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv
 
audigger53 wrote:
In Arizona where I grew up fishing, Corn was NOT legal. Trout can't digest it and it plugs them up and kills then. As per the Fish and Game in Arizona. I admit it works good from all I have heard, but it was not legal, like using Gold Fish for Bass. Bass love them but if they get off they take over a lake, Again this was in Arizona.

One of the big problems with corn people use it as chum they throw it out by the hands full and that’s when the trout loads up on it and it can kill the fish.

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Jan 17, 2020 17:59:53   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
Well it is illegal to chum in California, with anything, not just corn. Can trout digest power bait? I've found plenty of it in the bellies of trout I've gutted. Is power bait illegal in Arizona? This ain't making a lot of sense to me. Somebody splain it to me. Lucy?

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Jan 17, 2020 18:12:45   #
Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
Well it is illegal to chum in California, with anything, not just corn. Can trout digest power bait? I've found plenty of it in the bellies of trout I've gutted. Is power bait illegal in Arizona? This ain't making a lot of sense to me. Somebody splain it to me. Lucy?


I’ve found power bait in there bellies I have even found a cigarette butt in one but I have found loads of corn in them and it makes you wonder how they could even be hungry.

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Jan 17, 2020 18:25:48   #
Ron620DVS Loc: Guntersville Alabama
 
Chartreuse/fluorescent Orange PowerBaits 💥———-<%{~~”~~~<<

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